Last weekend the World Science Fiction Society gave out the 2018 Hugo Awards for the year's best works of science fiction. The full list of nominees and winners is available on the Hugo Awards website. Here are some of the year's winners, including N.K. Jemison's record-setting The Stone Sky--this is the first time an author has won the Hugo for Best Novel three years in a row, as the previous two books in the Broken Earth trilogy, The Fifth Season and The Obelisk Gate, won in 2016 and 2017, respectively.
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Best Novel A conclusion to the Hugo Award-winning, post-apocalyptic trilogy that began with The Fifth Season reveals how the powers and agendas of two women determine the fate of humankind in the wake of a returning Moon. |
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Best Novella A team of scientists and their security android, who unbeknownst to the scientists has hacked its own governor module, must investigate a neighboring mission that has gone dark. |
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Best Series (World of the Five Gods series) In this sequel to the novella Penric's Mission, the injured Penric, a Temple sorcerer and learned divine, tries to guide the betrayed General Arisaydia and his widowed sister Nikys across the last hundred miles of hostile Cedonia to safety in the Duchy of Orbas. In the town of Sosie the fugitive party encounters unexpected delays, and even more unexpected opportunities and hazards, as the courtesan Mira of Adria, one of the ten dead women whose imprints make up the personality of the chaos demon Desdemona, comes to the fore with her own special expertise. |
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Best Related Work Drawing on her blog, the award-winning author shares a collection of thoughts on aging, belief, the state of literature and the state of the nation. |
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Best Graphic Story Maika, Kippa and Ren journey to Thyria in search of answers to the past ... and discover a new, terrible threat. Collects Monstress #7-12. |
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Best Young Adult Book A sequel to Akata Witch finds a marginalized but increasingly powerful Sunny chosen to lead a dangerous mission to stop an apocalyptic plot by the terrifying masquerade, Ekwensu. |
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Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form When an Allied pilot crashes on the secluded island of Themyscira and tells of war in the outside world, Amazon warrior princess Diana leaves her home to fight evil and becomes Wonder Woman in the process. |
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Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form After her death, a woman wakes up in the Good Place, an afterlife town inhabited by the people who have led righteous lives, but the problem is that she gets sent there by mistake. |